Ezekiel 16

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1 And it was to me the word of the Lord:
2 Son of man! cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
3 and say, Thus saith the Lord God [the daughter] Jerusalem: Your root and your homeland in the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite
4 as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, and you're not washed in water to cleanse and has not shall be salted with salt and linen cloths not povit.
5 No eye had pity on thee, to his mercy to you to make you something of this; but thou wast cast out in the field, for contempt of thy person, in the day of your birth.

6 And I passed by you, and saw you at the destruction in your blood, I said unto thee: `in your blood, 'Live!' So, I said unto thee, in thy blood, live! '
7 Thee to multiply as the bud of the field; You grew up and became great, and come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts, and hair you have grown; but you were naked and bare.
8 And when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I stretched voskriliya [Reese] mine upon thee, and covered thy nakedness; and swore to you and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, you became mine --and.
9 Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil.
10 And put on you with embroidered cloth and shod you in morocco sandals, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and covered thee with silk.
eleven I decked thee also with ornaments, and put bracelets on your hands and a chain on your neck.
12 And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment [was] fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth; you ate fine flour, honey and oil, and it was very beautiful, and a kingdom.
14 And he swept the nations thank your for your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.

15 But you trusted in your beauty, and taking advantage of the glory of thy fornication, and became lavished thy fornications on every one that passed by.
16 And you took of your garments, and made for yourself gaily decked shrines, and played the harlot on them as never happened and never will.
17 And you took your fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I have given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the harlot with them.
18 And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set before them mine oil and mine incense,
19 and my bread which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed you, you even set it before them for a sweet savor; and it was, saith the Lord GOD.
20 And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to me and sacrificed them to be devoured. You never know you were whoring?
21 But you have slain my children, and delivered them to cause them [through] [fire].
22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, and thrown in your blood.
23 And after all thy wickedness, --gore, alas! Says the Lord God -
24 you built yourself a brothel and made thee an high place in every street;
25 at the beginning of every way she arranged her elevation, hast made thy beauty and thy feet to every passer by, and multiplied thy whoredom.
26 Fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbors, great of, and multiplied thy whoredom, to provoke me.
27 And behold, I stretched out my hand upon thee, and have diminished you, and gave you to hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
28 And fornication are you with the Assyrians, not sated; I played the harlot with them, but not be satisfied;
29 and multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan to Chaldea; and yet contented.
thirty How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, when you're all done, imperious whorish woman;
31 When you built yourself a brothel at the head of every road, and made thy high place in every street, you were not like a harlot, because scornest,
32 but as a wife that committeth adultery, which takes strangers instead of her husband.
33 All whores give gifts, but you yourself gave gifts to all your lovers and bribed them to come from all sides to you whoredom.
34 You have in your harlotries were contrary to what happens with women: do not chase after you, but you gave gifts, and you did not give gifts; and because thou art contrary to others.

35 Therefore, harlot, hear the word of the Lord!
36 Thus says the Lord GOD: Because you're so thy filthiness was poured out, and thy whoredoms thou thy nakedness discovered through thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and the blood of your sons whom you gave to them, -
37 Therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and that thou hast loved, with all those who are hated, and will gather them on every side against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
38 I will judge you by the court wedlock and shed blood, --and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy;
39 I will deliver thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and thy high and pluck you of your clothes, and take away thy fair jewels, and leave you naked and bare.
40 And convene on thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
41 And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women; and put an end to your fornication, and will not have to give gifts.
42 And quench my anger upon thee, and my indignation will retreat from you, and calm down, and I will not be angry.
43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, and all this annoys me, behold, I will recompense thy way to [thy] head, saith the Lord, that you will not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.

44 That is, anyone who speaks in parables can be said about you: 'As is the mother, so is her daughter. "
45 You're in your mother's daughter, who had left her husband and her children, --and you are the sister of your sisters in that abandoned their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
46 And thine elder sister - Samaria, and her daughters that dwell at thy left; and thy younger sister, who lives on your right, is Sodom and her daughters.
47 But you have not walked after their ways, and acted not according to their abominations; it was a little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
48 As I live, saith the Lord GOD; Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as did you and your daughters.
49 Behold, this was the iniquity of Sodom, your sister and her daughters: pride, fulness and idleness, and she hand of the poor and needy.
50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me, and saw it, I rejected them.
51 And Samaria committed half of your sins is not to sin; you surpass them thy detestable things, and through your abominations that you, your sister was right for you.
52 Bring the shame of thy and thou who hast judged thy sisters; for your sins, what are you committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous than thou. Blush with shame as you are, and bear your shame, justified thy sisters.
53 But I will restore their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them,
54 that thou mayest carrying your shame and ashamed of all that you have done, a comfort unto them.
55 And your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate; and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.
56 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned in your mouth in the day of thy pride,
57 How long was discovered thine iniquity, as in the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria and all those around her, the daughters of the Philistines, who looked at you with scorn on all sides.
58 For thy lewdness and thine abominations put up with you, says the Lord.
59 For thus saith the Lord God: I will even deal with you as you have done, he despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

60 But I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish with thee an everlasting covenant.
61 And thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, great you as much as you, and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
62 And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD,
63 in order that you may remember and be confounded, and to forward it was impossible to open your mouth in shame, when I forgive thee all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.

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